Given earlier debates by Christian authors about the existence of Jesus, e. g. in Justin Martyr's 2nd century Dialogue with Trypho, it would have been expected that the passage from Josephus would have been used as a component of the arguments.

Given that the authors were the primary developers of the Unix operating system, it is natural that QED had a strong influence on the classic UNIX text editors ed, sed and their descendants such as ex and sam.

Given that male authors had limited knowledge of her rites and attributes, ancient speculations about her identity abound, among them that she was an aspect of Terra, Ops, the Magna Mater, or Ceres, or a Latin form of Damia.

Given the availability of experienced short fiction writers at the time, Elwood's choice of inexperienced authors aroused suspicions.

Apart from the very rare “ Kirill of Turov ’ ( even when this designation occurs, it tends to be just one of several variant readings ), the headings in ‘ his ’ manuscripts include “ Kirill the monk ,” “ Kirill the philosopher ,” ‘ Saint Kirill ,” “ The Blessed father Kirill ,” “ the blessed monk Kirill ,” “ Kirill the unworthy monk ,” “ the venerable Kirill .” Given this variety of labels, ‘ Kirill ’ s ’ texts invite several candidates for being their more likely authors ( writers whose existence has been substantiated with historical facts ).

Given the military-industrial requirements of the Cold War, the authors of the then secret National Security Council Report 68 ( NSC-68 ) proposed the US government undertake a massive permanent national economic expansion that would let it “ siphon off ” a part of the economic activity produced to support an ongoing military buildup to contain the Soviet Union.

Given names or initials are not needed unless the work cites two authors with the same surname, as the whole purpose of using op.

Given that he is often referred to in documents as " Magister ," he is thought likely to have studied at the University of Paris.

Given police permission to search Sobhraj's apartment ( a full month after the suspect had left the country ), Knippenberg found much evidence, such as victims ' documents and poison-laced medicines.

Given that menudo is time and labor intensive to prepare — the tripe takes hours to cook ( or else it is extremely tough ), and many ingredients and side dishes ( such as salsa ) need to be cut and cooked — the dish is often prepared communally and eaten at a feast ; documents from the Works Progress Administration indicate that in the 1930s, among ( migrant ) workers in Arizona, menudo parties were held regularly to celebrate births, Christmas, and other occasions.

Given this expansion, most people shorten the name to simply " The Kingdom " in common usage, though the formal name remains in some documents.

Given the large number of Norse-derived place names in Rossendale and bearing in mind that documents from the 17th century and older spell the name as Aydenfield or some variant of this, a likely etymology is the Norse " øy " ( riverside ground / island ; see for instance the village of Øyer ) + " tun " ( farmstead ) + field ; in other words, the land belonging to the farmstead by the river ( Irwell ).

Given that most of these enzymes are destroyed when vegetables are cooked, Lee would try to consume them raw.

Given the potential for sampling biases of individual survey reports, researchers and investors try sometimes to average the values of different index reports into a single aggregated measure of consumer confidence.

Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established ; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try to evaluate the body of evidence which does exist and examine it critically.

Given the number of sites on the internet, it is impossible to try and manually monitor the entire internet for pages that may affect your online reputation.

Given this lengthy support it was reasonable for Tyrconnell and Tyrone to try to solicit help from Philip III, but Spanish policy was to maintain its recent ( 1604 ) peace with England, and its European fleet had anyway been destroyed by the Dutch over four months earlier.

Given the unstable state of affairs in Massachusetts, Hillsborough instructed Governor Bernard to try to find evidence of treason in Boston.

Given the difficulty of constructing explicit small families of solutions, much less presenting something like a " general " solution to the Einstein field equation, or even a " general " solution to the vacuum field equation, a very reasonable approach is to try to find qualitative properties which hold for all solutions, or at least for all vacuum solutions.

Given " blender ", for example, I would try to think of all the ways a brick could be used with a blender ( as a lid ?).

Given the nature of Muddy's ability to move the ball, digging holes in the wrong places could make reaching the gate with the ball completely impossible, requiring Muddy to leave the screen and then return to try again.

• b )" Given men " were players specially selected from other teams, including current opponents, to try and ensure that the teams were evenly matched for the purpose of gambling on the match result.

Given an adequately broad agreement, a company may threaten employees who try to leave for competitors ( or in some cases, non-competitors ) with legal action.

Given that field experiments necessarily take place in a specific geographic and political setting, the extent to which findings can be extrapolated to formulate a general theory regarding economic behavior is a concern.

Given a method for establishing the satisfaction ( or not ) of every atomic sentence of the form A (... x < sub > k </ sub >...), the usual rules for truth-functional connectives and quantifiers yield a definition for the satisfaction condition of all sentences of the object language.

Given source material, Rabin – Karp can rapidly search through a paper for instances of sentences from the source material, ignoring details such as case and punctuation.

Given the sentences My wife is pregnant and My wife is not pregnant when one has no wife, then either:

Given the conceptual context within which ancient thought thrived, how could anyone have questioned this principle??

Given the opportunity, adults eat hatchlings, which may be protected by separating the two groups with a net, breeding box or separate tank.

Given a surface through which a metal wire passes, electrons move in both directions across the surface at an equal rate.

Given Mountbatten's determination, Nehru and Patel's inability to deal with the Muslim League and lastly Jinnah's obstinacy, all Indian party leaders ( except Gandhi ) acquiesced to Jinnah's plan to divide India, which in turn eased Mountbatten's task.

Given also a measure on set, then, sometimes also denoted or, has as its vectors equivalence classes of measurable functions whose absolute value's-th power has finite integral, that is, functions for which one has

Given a set S with a partial order ≤, an infinite descending chain is a chain V that is a subset of S upon which ≤ defines a total order such that V has no least element, that is, an element m such that for all elements n in V it holds that m ≤ n.

* Given a binary operation, an idempotent element ( or simply an idempotent ) for the operation is a value for which the operation, when given that value for both of its operands, gives the value as the result.

Given the tendency for real negotiations in Japan to be conducted privately ( in the nemawashi, or root binding, process of consensus building ), the shingikai often represented a fairly advanced stage in policy formulation in which relatively minor differences could be thrashed out and the resulting decisions couched in language acceptable to all.

Given significant distance from the magnetic poles, one can figure which hand is which using a magnetic compass and the sun.

Given two secondary stations, the time difference ( TD ) between the primary and first secondary identifies one curve, and the time difference between the primary and second secondary identifies another curve, the intersections of which will determine a geographic point in relation to the position of the three stations.

Given this assumption, there are four categories in which a firm's profit may be considered to be.

Given the definition of morpheme as " the smallest meaningful unit " Nanosyntax aims to account for idioms where it is often an entire syntactic tree which contributes " the smallest meaningful unit.

Given that different groups in society have different beliefs, priorities, and interests, to which group would the media tailor its bias?

Given the above commonalities there appear to be only two string theories: the heterotic string theory ( which is also the type I string theory ) and the type II theory.

Given the proposition that ' a persons life prospects should not be decided by factors outside of their control or for which a person cannot claim personal credit ' ( i. e. social status, inherited wealth, race and other accidents of birth ) a meritocracy proposes a system where people are rewarded based on their efforts, and if everyone can start on equal footing with the same opportunity to advance, then the results are just.

Given a specific task to solve, and a class of functions, learning means using a set of observations to find which solves the task in some optimal sense.

Given printing practices at the time ( which included type-setting from dictation ), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same.

" Given, a certain population, with various needs and powers of production, in possession of certain lands and other sources of material: required, the mode of employing their labour which will maximize the utility of their produce.

* Coreference resolution: Given a sentence or larger chunk of text, determine which words (" mentions ") refer to the same objects (" entities ").

* Named entity recognition ( NER ): Given a stream of text, determine which items in the text map to proper names, such as people or places, and what the type of each such name is ( e. g. person, location, organization ).

* Topic segmentation and recognition: Given a chunk of text, separate it into segments each of which is devoted to a topic, and identify the topic of the segment.

Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of " blind animal terror " at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was " four or five years away from ".

Given these issues, Microsoft started to work in parallel on a version of Windows which was more future-oriented and more portable.

Given an arbitrary group G, there is a related profinite group G < sup >^</ sup >, the profinite completion of G. It is defined as the inverse limit of the groups G / N, where N runs through the normal subgroups in G of finite index ( these normal subgroups are partially ordered by inclusion, which translates into an inverse system of natural homomorphisms between the quotients ).